Řehka to become army chief after last formal hurdle cleared

June 3 marks 100 days since Russia unleashed war on Ukraine. We look back at what the Czech Republic has done to contribute towards supporting and aiding the war-torn country.

Czechs beat Swiss in Nations League campaign opener

Joint Czech-Polish government meetings for Prague

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MPs pass bill to ensure traders store minimum level of gas

Karel Čapek’s War with the Newts, a darkly humorous dystopia about a super-breed of amphibians trying to conquer the world, was published more than 80 years ago. This week, a new ‘surf-rock audio drama’, inspired by Čapek’s pioneering scie...

Earlier this week, part of Prague’s Švanda Theatre ensemble embarked on a two-week tour of the Unites States. In addition to two productions representing contemporary Czech drama, the Smíchov theatre group will also present a brand new theatrica...

Vaclík to win 50th cap in Switzerland game

The decision of Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hřib to close the capital’s centre for Ukrainian refugees in mid-June, due to overload, has elicited sharp criticism from regional governors. Many have pointed out that the closure of the country’s busiest r...

Lipavský backs Sweden and Finland’s efforts to join in Nato in Stockholm

Prague hit by massive electricity blackout

Government approves CZK 5000 one-off payment for children under 18

Two dead in Alzheimer's Centre blaze

Sixth case of monkeypox in the Czech Republic confirmed

An estimated 350,000 people have fled Ukraine for the Czech Republic over the past three months. Among the many refugees are also some twenty students from Kyiv’s Municipal Academy of Performing and Circus Arts. They arrived just days after Russia...

Fans of history and jewellery may appreciate the exhibition “Czech crown jewels that you can reach” (České Korunovační klenoty na dosah), which is opening at Sychrov Castle in Northern Bohemia this Wednesday. The traveling exhibition feature...

Prague to close its refugee centre in Vysočany on 15 June

The Czech Republic’s six-month presidency of the EU gets underway in exactly one month’s time. In parallel the country’s international network of Czech Centres will be running a whole host of events in the second half of 2022, with the motto V...

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Prime Minister Petr Fiala to meet Pope Francis in Vatican next week

Prague Castle is not only the face of today’s picturesque Czech capital, but also an important archaeological site whose origins stretch back into prehistory. The castle hill and its surroundings still have much to unveil, archaeologists say. In f...

Refugees can continue to use Prague public transport for free until 12 June

Forbes: most influential Czech woman is EC Vice-President Věra Jourová

The Ministry of Culture is looking into a complaint regarding the 2018 reconstruction of Prague’s famous astronomical clock. Specifically the complaint targets the copy of the original calendar on the Old Town Clock by Josef Mánes. According to M...

Economist Danuše Nerudová announces candidacy for Czech president

Lower House approves stricter measures for refugees

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The Czech Republic was the last EU country to bring in a comprehensive smoking ban. A ban on smoking in public places such as restaurants, bars, cafes, pubs, and bus stops came into effect in the Czech Republic on May 31 2017 – happily coinciding ...

Karlovy Vary festival to honour late artistic director Eva Zaoralová

Record amount of forest trees planted in Czechia last year

After hours of struggling to resolve their differences, EU leaders on Monday agreed to block more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports to member states in a deal that will cut off a huge source of financing for Russia’s war machine. The Czech Re...

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Monthly siren test to go off on Wednesday after three-month break

Czech household debts fall in April, first drop since 2016

Russian ambassador summoned over use of real estate

An estimated 350,000 people have fled Ukraine for the Czech Republic over the past three months. Among the many refugees are also some twenty students from Kyiv’s Municipal Academy of Performing and Circus Arts. They arrived just days after Russia...

With just over a month until the 56th edition of the region’s biggest cinema event, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has just announced its main programme. Two Czechs works – Borders of Love and The Word – will be in the running fo...

Czech PM praises EU agreement on Russian oil embargo

Statisticians: Czech economy grew by 4.8 percent in first quarter of 2022

Regulator proposes changes on Czech mobile phone market

Cyber watchdog issues warning against selected smart electricity metres

VZP: Refugee influx could raise healthcare expenses by CZK 6.9 billion

Study: Number of regular drinkers declined in Czech Republic

Bohumil Kubišta’s painting Old Prague Motif was sold on Sunday at auction for CZK 123.6 million, the most a painting has ever sold for at a Czech art auction. It was also almost five times the starting price of CZK 25 million, which itself would ...

The Czech Republic came third at the Ice Hockey World Championship in Finland on Sunday. A storming comeback win over the United States gave the Czechs their first medal at a major tournament in 10 long years – bronze that players say feels like g...

Poland could construct second FSRU amid Czech and Slovak interest

Second tent town for Ukrainian refugees being constructed in Prague

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A team of scientists from the Global Change Research Institute in Brno has created a digital map of the Dyje river basin. With the help of the digitized model they can simulate changes to the basin triggered by Nature and human activity, helping to ...

Prague hosted NATO intelligence chiefs meeting

The EU and Ukrainian flags appeared side by side on Prague’s Legion Bridge at the weekend in a show of support for Ukraine’s EU membership bid.  

Couple suspected of espionage over link to Russian agents

This outstanding Czech artist, associated with his native Vysočina and France, did not receive full recognition until after the fall of Communism. Until then, he worked in relative obscurity, with his poems being published mainly abroad and via sam...

Czech footballers assemble before four Nations League games

Kubišta’s Old Prague Motif sets Czech auction record with CZK 123 million sale

Czechs beat US in bronze game at hockey worlds

Group weighing changes in Czech lower house meeting next week

Ex-MP facing rape charge reportedly attempts suicide

Khamoro festival of Romany culture starts in Prague

Number of Ukrainians with temporary protection status nears 360,000

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Czechs to face US in third place game at hockey worlds

The annual Leoš Janáček International Music Festival will traditionally launch by a performance of the composer’s Sinfonietta. Meanwhile, Richard Strauss’ famous Oboe Concerto will be performed by the Czech Republic’s “oboe ambassador” ...

Jan Kubiš Day held at Panenské Břežany

Minister: Govt planning discount to help Czechs cope with energy prices

Okamura party MEP plans presidential run

Nine-hundred more Ukrainians receive temporary protection

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Exhibition highlights lives of prisoners forced to mine uranium

Parody award goes to presidential candidate for Covid disinformation

Czech ice hockey team to face Canada in semi-finals

Muchová loses third round of French Open after ankle injury

ČEZ to raise gas prices by 80% from July

One of the key factors in the successful assassination of senior Nazi Reinhard Heydrich 80 years ago was the support that members of the Sokol patriotic gymnastics movement provided to the Czechoslovak soldiers. Many of them would later pay for it w...

The Prague Radio Symphony orchestra will enter its 96th season under new chief conductor and music director Petr Popelka. The 36-year-old musician, regarded as one of the most talented contemporary conductors, presented the programme of the upcoming...

Coronavirus numbers in Czechia continue to fall

Czech, Slovak and UK representatives commemorate Operation Anthropoid

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Prague revokes Soviet Marshal Konev’s honorary citizenship

Czech Republic marks 80th anniversary of Heydrich assassination

Czechs beat Germany to reach World Championships semi-final in ice hockey

Three new cases of monkeypox detected in Czechia

A whole slew of events will be held in Prague on Friday marking the 80th anniversary of the assassination of the Nazi governor of Bohemia and Moravia in 1942. The Slovak president and UK foreign secretary are among the dignitaries taking part.

Striker Patrik Schick to stay in Leverkusen until 2027

Operation Anthropoid was the only successful government-organized assassination of a top-ranking Nazi official. On the occasion of its 80th anniversary, we look back at how it unfolded, and hear voices from a cast of colourful characters, including ...

Former Charles University rector wants to run for president

Plíšková out of French Open after shock defeat in second round

The Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth got underway in the South Moravian town on Thursday. The oldest and largest film festival of its kind in the world, which is now in its 62nd year, will feature nearly 280 films from 49 cou...

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With inflation at over 14 percent and cost-cutting the order of the day, Prague City Hall has announced plans to reduce electricity costs by dimming streetlights in some parts of the capital and switching off the special lighting of monuments severa...

FM: Czechia supports Moldova’s entry into EU

Zelensky expected to address Czech Parliament on June 15

Swiss President Cassis visits Czechia to discuss bilateral and EU relations

Future central bank governor says interests rates should remain above normal

Defense Ministry to build new logistics base at Ostrava Mošnov Airport

Government approves increase in pensions to cover inflation

The Assasination (Atentát) is a unique 1964 depiction of the killing of acting Reichsprotector Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak parachutists during World War II. It has been newly digitised by the Czech National Film Archive (NFA) and is being scr...

The authorities are now creating a second tent city in Prague, in the Malešice district. It will handle some of the hundreds of Ukrainian refugees of Roma origin – many also citizens of Hungary – who have been sleeping at the Main Train Station...

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Trade union leaders threatening to strike if no deal on higher wages in public sector

State Health Institute reports another suspected case of monkeypox

Beer prices expected to rise sharply

Jaromír Jágr uninjured after car crash in Prague

The Czech state began to form around the 9th century AD. This process was crucially influenced by the Přemyslids, Bohemia’s ruling dynasty which had control over Czech territory for more than 400 years. But what do we actually know about this per...

Half of Zeman’s economic advisors quit

Czechs to face Germany at hockey worlds after Finland defeat

Zeman turns down 11 requests from Czechs wishing to fight for Ukraine

Prague gets second tent town in Malešice district

Prague mayor calls for limiting of refugee benefits if capacity full

First case of monkeypox detected in Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is no Chicago or New York, that’s for sure – its tallest building, the N Tower (formerly known as the AZ Tower) in Brno only reaches a less-than-impressive 111 metres. But the eastern city of Ostrava is set to become the new r...

Thanks to contracts signed under the communist regime, the Russian Embassy received a vast amount of real estate in Prague, Karlovy Vary and other Czech cities free of charge to be used for diplomatic purposes. With just six Russian diplomats left i...

Block on Czech disinformation sites to be lifted Wednesday

Milan Reindl, a former English teacher from a small town of Sušice, is the only Czech working as a model designer at the Danish toy giant LEGO. He only fell for the LEGO bricks in his mid-twenties and just a few years later, he landed a dream job i...

Thirteen years after being destroyed by fire, the Industrial Palace at Prague’s Exhibition Grounds is now undergoing an extensive reconstruction. As part of the works, which started about two months ago, restorers have now began to repair the mass...

Zeman office could face fine over shredding of classified documents

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Czech apartment prices rise by one-fifth y-o-y in first quarter

Olga Havel prize awarded to Dita Horochovská for project which brings smart home technology to disabled persons